Domestic Radicals More Deadly Than Jihadis In The US - ( An Article From Houston Chronicles 06/25/2015

The Article below was published in Houston Chronicles Newspaper on June 25th 2015 by Scott Shane - New York Time.
The purpose of sharing this article is to emphasize that Muslims are not the terrorists or causing corruption as it is shown in media, instead there are more domestic people causing the corruption which need to be known by common people as well as security authorities.


Washington- In the 14 years since Al Qaida carried out attacks on New York and Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants.
But the breakdown of  extremist ideologies behind those attacks may come as a surprise. Since September, 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacist, anti government fanatics and other non- Muslim extremist than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremist that are not Muslims, compared with 26 by self proclaimed jihadis, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.
The slaying of nine African-Americans in a South Carolina church last week, with an avowed white supremacist charged, was only the latest in a string of lethal attacks by people espousing racial hatred or hostility to government. The assaults have taken the lives of police officers, members of racial or religious minorities and random civilians.
Non-Muslim extremist have carried out 19 such attacks since 9/11, according to the latest count, compiled by David Sterman, a New America program associate, and overseen by Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert. By comparison seven lethal attacks by Islamic militants have taken place in the same period.

A survey to be published this week asked 382 police and sheriff's departments nationwide to rank the three biggest threats from violent extremism in their jurisdiction. about 74 percent listed anti-government violence, while 39 percent listed al-Qaida inspired violence, according to the researcheres, Charles Kurzman of the University of North Carolina and David Schanzer of Duke University.
Law enforcement agencies around the country have told us the threat from Muslim extremist is not as great as the threat from the right wing extremists, said Kurzman, whose study is to be published by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security and the Police Executive Research Forum.
John.G Horgan, who studies terrorism at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, said the mismatch between public perception and actual cases has become steadily become more obvious to scholars.
There's an acceptance now of the idea that the threat from the jihadi terrorism in the United States has been overblown, Horgan said. And there's a belief that the threat of the right-wing, anti government violence has been under-estimated.